Not if said politicians went to OSU and hate OU sports. Sticking OU in an also-ran conference would be a dream come true.
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Not if said politicians went to OSU and hate OU sports. Sticking OU in an also-ran conference would be a dream come true.
Agree, especially with ACC GOR extended...no chance an ACC team sneaks in short term for 2nd spot. I also think this will give OU enough cover to leave OSU out.
Agree on the political separation anxiety, not convinced it will be that rational though...if Texas/OU are gone the big 12 no longer qualifies as an also ran conference and pretty much will leave OSU for dead, I think it will take some cover that OU is in trouble, if Texas agrees to leave first, again that may be enough, but it will be ugly either way. i think it would be much harder for OU to leave first by themselves without OSU having a soft landing...but I think that would be most interesting scenario in what Texas's next move would be.
In case of VA & VA Tech it proved to not even be that simple...even VA grad/governor ended up supporting VA Tech because of political pressure/votes (not sure he was anti VA tech to begin with though)...even if you don't like OU, you do want OU fans voting for you if you're a politician & financial impact of falling off the football map matters to state, regional economy, and voters so there are plenty of forces pushing the other way on this one.
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Oh, a large segment of the debate won't be rational. It'll be a barroom brawl and the squealing will be pegged at 11. There won't be a soft landing for OSU. The BIG will orchestrate the move by inviting UT and OU as a pair (there won't be an invitation if there's any doubt about the answer). UT accepts posthaste and the fight is on. Should be epic. But again, I think the politicos will not block OU. Operative word being think.
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Interesting article.
As the Big 12 makes plans for expansion, TV networks are preparing for a fight to avoid paying for lesser candidates
http://www.si.com/private/api_refer...reparing-fight-avoid-paying-lesser-candidates
As the Big 12 makes plans for expansion, TV networks are preparing for a fight to avoid paying for lesser candidates
http://www.si.com/private/api_refer...reparing-fight-avoid-paying-lesser-candidates
Dish offering ESPN less package
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dish-network-espn-20160804-snap-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dish-network-espn-20160804-snap-story.html
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Can I order the exact opposite of that...?
BTN & NBCSN w/out cable, is that too much to ask?
btw - Sling TV offers Espn, Espn 2 & U, plus local fox sports for $20 + $5 sports add on and their two basic plans are labelled "orange" & "blue" to boot.
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Yeah I'm really hoping BTN gets added to sling sometime soon to make this the best deal for me
Playstation Vue has BTN now along with the ESPN channels if that is an option for you.
I wasn't aware of this option, thanks. Also appears to have NBCSN for EPL, which is a biggie for me.
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Will be interesting to see if Texas and OU agree to extend their GoR beyond 2025. The B12 is certainly going to push for this. I don't think there's any way UT and OU extend.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if the BIG has made it clear (via backchannels) that invitations await.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if the BIG has made it clear (via backchannels) that invitations await.
If the B1G were to expand I'd like to see ND included. Would be open to Misdouri as well.
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ND has been tendered invitations numerous times. Until their path to the playoffs is eliminated, they will remain independent. Scheduling is going to be more difficult for them, but they'll manage.
Miznoz is a flat no.
Yeah, that place is a disaster area these days, even ignoring the financial part, the league doesn't need that stuff coming on board.
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The economics/financial angle is a flat no. The state of their programs is icing, but not really relevant. Darn funny though. Miznoz!
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http://www.rumbleinthegarden.com/20...erest-between-uconn-big-east-big-12-expansion
Musical chairs keep moving.
I find it interesting -- others here may already know this -- that the B1G has 3 of the top 5 most popular college football teams in the NYC TV market.
Musical chairs keep moving.
I find it interesting -- others here may already know this -- that the B1G has 3 of the top 5 most popular college football teams in the NYC TV market.
One of the arriviste AAC schools finally giving up the ghost on football would be quite a move. That has not yet happened.
UConn makes sense as that school given that their football program has always been a stepchild, and the conference striving lunacy is doing real damage to a premier, beloved basketball program who have a natural home in a first-rate basketball conference.
Would Cincinnati consider the same move if they don't get the golden ticket? Temple? Maybe even Memphis?
UConn is an odd duck school that doesn't fit into any conference well.
It's a much larger school and public, unlike the mid-sized Catholic schools in the Big East. But too "big time" and and not a geographic fit for the American. It's only been playing FBS football since 2000 and so unlikely to be attractive to the ACC, Big 12, etc.
Really, the big Northeastern public schools should have formed their own conference years ago when Pitt, Rutgers and Penn St were still "free agents", but since they were all over the place in terms of the level of their football programs, they never had the opportunity.
A good start to a conference would be UMass, UConn, Army, Navy, Temple, and Marshall. Maybe Old Dominion. Try to get others like URI, Delaware and Maine to jump up a level in football. That would at least give you a cohesive group of schools to have a conference around.
It's a much larger school and public, unlike the mid-sized Catholic schools in the Big East. But too "big time" and and not a geographic fit for the American. It's only been playing FBS football since 2000 and so unlikely to be attractive to the ACC, Big 12, etc.
Really, the big Northeastern public schools should have formed their own conference years ago when Pitt, Rutgers and Penn St were still "free agents", but since they were all over the place in terms of the level of their football programs, they never had the opportunity.
A good start to a conference would be UMass, UConn, Army, Navy, Temple, and Marshall. Maybe Old Dominion. Try to get others like URI, Delaware and Maine to jump up a level in football. That would at least give you a cohesive group of schools to have a conference around.
That's true if you're playing in-a-vacuum matchmaker. And there is a neat little cohesion in the Big East, though lessened somewhat by Butler which is not a Catholic school.
Regardless though, in term of their place in basketball history, UConn belongs with Georgetown and Nova and St. Johns and the rest of the historical Big East. Those are all natural historic rivals and basketball programs worthy of them, a combination that can't be said of a single one of their current conference mates. There is zero question they would have been a member of the new Big East from day one if it weren't for their phantom limb of a football program.
UConn Basketball deserves much, much better than that. Time to let the gridiron dream die. The golden ticket to the Power Five isn't coming and the rest of FBS football is being left for dead.
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http://www.commercialappeal.com/col...64-7e57-269b-e053-0100007fabe5-390708561.html
Ran into this article the other day and it gives you an idea how desperate some of these schools are to get into a major conference while there's still a chance.
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As an addition to the previous Memphis article.
What the Memphis writer called Fed Ex stepping forward in an extraordinary --even unprecedented -- way, it appears this writer calls it bribery.
http://newsok.com/tramel-why-uconn-...12s-best-expansion-candidates/article/5514715
What the Memphis writer called Fed Ex stepping forward in an extraordinary --even unprecedented -- way, it appears this writer calls it bribery.
http://newsok.com/tramel-why-uconn-...12s-best-expansion-candidates/article/5514715
Geographically this makes sense tho I hate Mizzou.....if Texas and out got added they'd HAFTA be in the west and perhaps Pitt and Notre same east?!